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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Houston: What Families Need to Know You’re reading this because someone you love didn’t come home from Houston’s roads. Maybe it was the I-10 Katy Freeway during the morning surge into the Energy Corridor. Maybe it was the Sam Houston Tollway near the Galleria where stop-and-go traffic backs up for miles. Maybe it was the Hardy Toll Road on the north side, or the Southwest Freeway near the Medical Center. Wherever it happened, an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer changed everything for your family on a corridor most Houstonians drive every day without thinking about it. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003 already started a clock the day of the crash. Not the day of the funeral. Not the day of the autopsy report. Not the day you finally felt ready to think about a lawyer. The day of the crash. You have two years from that date to file a wrongful-death action under Section 71.001. Under Section 71.004, you— as the surviving spouse, child, or parent— hold an independent statutory claim. So does your loved one’s estate, under Section 71.021, for the conscious pain and mental anguish they endured between injury and death. Three…